Designer

The Designer is the counterpart of the Klasseditor that allows the developer to create GUI Interfaces.

With the power of objects you design your forms intuitive for each structure you created earlyer. as you see it makes not much sense to use the designer with a project from the scratch but when you already defined something in you dictionary.

each object can have a multiple number of controls and windows. controls are the view in a certain situation and windows are collections of controls.

using the provided tools you can create a database application without writing a single line of code

an get created in no time, even if you dont know all the fine details of a programming language

features

the designer provides a dialog driven and a form driven interface. dialogs provide a quick and complete overview for a existing object, while the gui interface allows you to graphical setup the items on a control

you can set size, position, borders, menus, margins, sizing, icons, fonts, colors, drag behaviour and text. of course you can define the datasources.

of course the dream of 'no line of code' works only with simple applications so there is a interface to context classes that enables you to edit code for a context.

managing a large set of controls is done using a treeview that allows to edit the various types.

limits

see klasseditor (resources)

the designed structures get part of the dictionary - there is no control like vs or qt designer provides

the application you will create will have to make use of the odaba technique

if you like to use some special gui features that we did not need yet you have to create access function in oadi and ogui::odcontrol to use them from a context

usage

from the point you have structures you have to create a project and reload the control (close, reset cache, load) or restart the application

screenshots

of course you have to see the tool that you watch all day once you decided for it.

action

full

if you feel ready for a experimental alpha version download the windows binary

howto

howtos that show some features of the designer